Why Bilingual Education Fails Our Young--in Plain English : JOHN CAMPISE Kirby Lee, Alarmed by what has been called the Los Angeles Unified School District's failure to educate many secondary school students who have English language deficiencies, the state's acting schools chief is threatening to withhold nearly $60 million for bilingual education if dramatic improvements are not made by December. The same audit praised the district's elementary program. John Campise, 54, is a third- and fourth-grade instructor at West Vernon Elementary, where he has taught for 16 years. Campise believes the bilingual education program is ineffective and needs to be modified. He was interviewed by Kirby Lee

New Law Defines Owners' Rights, Fees JAN HICKENBOTTOM, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES; Hickenbottom is a past president of the Greater Los Angeles chapter of the Community Associations Institute (CAI), a national nonprofit research and educational organization

Untitled Richard Kenney, From "The Invention of the Zero" by Richard Kenney. (Knopf: $20.) This is a book of four narrative poems, four stories: an atomic explosion, war in the Galapagos Islands, a typhoon in the western Pacific, and a frogman in midair. 1993 Reprinted by permission

PLATFORM : Act 2, Without Sax LARRY BUMGARDNER, LARRY BUMGARDNER, a former journalist in Tennessee, teaches law and political science at Pepperdine University. He commented on Vice President Gore's appearance last week on "Late Night with David Letterman":

Lessons From a Missed Opportunity : EYEWITNESS: ANDREW YOUNG ROBERT SCHEER, Before Andrew Young was U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, he was elected to Congress from Georgia for three terms. He later served two terms as mayor of Atlanta. He now is vice president of an Atlanta engineering and environmental consulting firm. As told to Robert Scheer